Horace Quotes
In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war.
Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Horace 65 BC-8 BC, Roman Poet, Satires
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What is interesting about this quote is that it is very much like many American politicians who support a large and strong military.
Shortly after the Maine blew up in Havana Harbor:
Essentially similar ideas were expressed earlier by George Washington and in antiquity by Vegetius and Horace.
At that time there were extensive meetings and discussions for the creation of what was to be the United Nations. The negative view of the United Nations or other international security organization is now and always has been held by a vocal minority in the United States.
Hobson, like Mark Twain in America, was a major critic of imperialism.
She was the 5th female member of the House and its first Jewish member. She was the first woman on the House Military Affairs Committee, and was one of the few Republicans who advocated spending for military preparedness. At the time of her service, many Republicans were strict isolationists.
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known in the English-speaking world as Horace (/ˈhɒrɪs/), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as just about the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."
